The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left ...

Berlin may have found a way to rearm despite balanced-budget restraints.

Mr Merz revealed plans for two changes to the debt brake, a constitutional provision in place since 2009 that lets the ...

Berlin may have found a way to rearm despite balanced-budget restraints.

The parties hoping to form Germany's next government agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul ...

Germany's likely chancellor-to-be announces a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending.

Germany's coalition agreed a landmark deal to exempt defense spending from its harsh debt brakes, in addition to unveiling a ...

Chris Bryant is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for the ...

FRANKFURT — Germany’s historic turnaround on public spending has sent shockwaves through financial markets, sending the euro ...

Friedrich Merz said Germany must quickly strengthen its defence capability because of the ‘increasing threat situation’.

Merz, a longtime Atlanticist who had previously baulked at financing public spending through large-scale debt, has quickly ...

Their conversation came amid reports that the US has frozen military aid to Ukraine following the clash between Zelensky and ...